What is your Preferable Bottle Size ?

Some of us have huge collection of perfumes, while some are just start collecting fragrances.

I have around 80 scents in my collection, both full bottles and decants.

I buy big bottles for the scents I love & smaller ones for heavy scent that require only 1 - 2 sprays to last forever or one that is so luxurious that it is only suitable for special event.

I prefer big bottle, especially for niche, vintage, and discontinue perfume because it is hard to find and the price different between small bottle and big one is not much. The most important factor that make me choose big bottle is companies discontinue or reformulate great perfumes all the time.

But I have decided for the bottle size of perfumes I am going to get from Paris next month. I am going to buy two 50 ml of Frederic Malle, interested in CF and PoaL. And may be a few Serge Lutens.

Because I do not think I can finish all the bottles I already have. Some of them are really hard to wear in Thailand like the sweet amber bomb of Hermessence Ambre Narquiles or so 'unique' that makes people rise their eye brows like scents from Amouage, Santa Maria Novella, etc. Franky, I do not think I can finished all my decants, too.

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I am a also starting to have a big collection, so there's much more than I can possibly use. Hence small bottles (50-75) are enough, even accounting for samples exchanged with other people. I go for 100ml (or even bigger) for some of my very favorites. And I am slowly going towards parfum concentrations for the very few perfumes that have them.

Of course, the current iconoclastic fury of regulators and CEOs is a sensible argument for stocking up with big bottles. One cannot just assume to be able to purchase another bottle of a perfume when the first one is over.

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Almost 95% of all of my collection are large size bottles 100ml and higher!
For small difference between small size and large size I prefer the larger one, so I can apply more fragrance in higher frequencies and even inexorably!

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I prefer the smaller bottles because of how little I go through HOWEVER, I end up with the big bottles because I cannot justify the price difference for the amount of juice that I am getting. Some times it a difference of $5 a ml!

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Going against the grain here but if the value per mL stays constant, I prefer 50mL and sometimes 30mL. I have trouble finishing bottles, and finishing a bottle means that I could justify buying something new! Hahahah.

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Originally Posted by VintagePoison

Going against the grain here but if the value per mL stays constant, I prefer 50mL and sometimes 30mL. I have trouble finishing bottles, and finishing a bottle means that I could justify buying something new! Hahahah.

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I actually love when I can get just a 30-50mL size from a house. That alone can last me a good 6 months of constant usage, but mix that with many others as well as days I wear nothing or am trying samples out?

If I like something, I can always buy it a second time, or more.

Give me even a small trunk of 100mL bottles and I'd likely have to resign myself with knowing I'm already set for life...

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For frangrances which I totally love and use often - 100ml as it is often the most economical option.

Otherwise, would prefer 30ml bottles of fragrances which I alternate between or ones that I am not 100% sure about (yes, guilty of some blind buys...). Obviously, if the 50ml costs the same as the 30ml, I'll go with the 50ml...

I wish they produced smaller bottles, though - perhaps around 10-20ml -these are great to carry around (unless it is a bulky bottle). Since most fragrances nowadays come only in spray bottles, you cannot fill small containers to carry around as we used to do years ago...

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I prefer original bottles to decants, but generally go for the smallest bottle possible since I do not go through fragrances very quickly. I've only actually finished a bottle once. I also find smaller bottles more comfortable in my hand.

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
- Bruce Lee

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I am kind of changing my opinion on this matter. I am watching my collection remain mostly untouched through all these years, and I am thinking that a smaller size will be cheaper for me, even if the price per ml is higher. My note-to-self is going to be: get smaller sizes and if I get to finish the bottle and still love the perfume, I'll buy the large size. Exceptions: bargains on perfumes I have already tried extensively and thus know that I like much.

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I've just added up the volume of perfume I have. Even though I've always aimed to buy the smallest size available, I already have over 2 litres of fragrance. That's already going to take me decades to go through. Sigh.

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My preferred bottle size is 100ml, but as my collection grows, I realize there's no way I could ever use it all up... so, really, in a perfect world, I'd be able to buy 15 ml bottles.

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Originally Posted by Scentsucker

I've just added up the volume of perfume I have. Even though I've always aimed to buy the smallest size available, I already have over 2 litres of fragrance. That's already going to take me decades to go through. Sigh.

HA!!! I love it!!! I never thought about it that way. I guess I have around two liters worth too. That'd make for one heck of a smelly soda bottle!